Environmentalists last week built a giant Christmas tree out of garbage in Beirut to pressure the government into cleaning up Lebanon’s waste problem.

Campaigners from Greenpeace erected a 20-foot-tall “tree” of cans, plastic and computer junk at the heart of the Lebanese capital in Martyr’s Square, where a Christmas tree is put up every December.

SpongeBob has been kidnapped in Minnesota.

Little Falls police on Nov. 18 responded to a report that a giant, inflatable SpongeBob SquarePants was missing from atop a Burger King restaurant.

In its place was a ransom note saying: “We have SpongeBob. Give us 10 crabby patties, fries and milkshakes.”

It was signed by the sponge’s nemesis, “Plankton,” and had a warning for his starfish sidekick: “Patrick is next.”

A Massachusetts College of Art senior must perform 40 hours of community service for streaking through traffic in his underwear after the Red Sox stunned the Yankees in the American League Championship Series last month.

In its first resolution of a case against college students involved in rioting after postseason Red Sox victories, the Suffolk district attorney’s office also asked that the school discipline the student, Jonathan Chamberlain, 21, The Boston Globe reported.

Police in Lincoln Park, Mich., recently used a Taser gun – twice – to subdue a kicking and screaming 14-year-old boy who wouldn’t stop playing his Nintendo Game Boy during class.

The boy, who was charged with resisting and obstructing a police officer, was uninjured, except for a scrape on his right temple that happened during a fight with three cops and an assistant principal at Lincoln Park HS.

The first known piece of printed porn, described as the “quintessence of debauchery,” is expected to reach up to $65,040 when it is auctioned in London next month.

“Sodom,” penned in the mid-1670s, has been attributed to John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester, and is described by auction house Sotheby’s as rife with pornography “in almost every line.”